Ethiopia

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breaking barriers

Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa…20 young African creatives to know The number of African artists and creatives working across the continent and its diaspora is rising. This number includes those doing remarkable work ...
Relatives of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 crash victims gather in front of their respective coffins on 17 March 2019 in Addis Ababa. © Jemal Countess / Getty Images via AFP

landed with responsibility?

Premium badgeEthiopian Airlines crash: Will Boeing finally be held accountable?  The American aircraft manufacturer, Boeing, has been summoned to a court today in Texas, having been accused of having allegedly let fly a 737 MAX air...
© Ethiopia’s State Finance Minister Eyob Tekalign attends the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, U.S., October 15, 2022. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan

Peace Dividend

Premium badgeEthiopia: Domestic debt can be a remedy for Eurobond stress Ethiopia’s fledgling market in debt securities is helping to improve the sustainability of public debt even as the share of domestic debt increases, a...
© Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang walking with Ethiopia’s PM Abiy Ahmed during their bilateral meeting at the Prime Minister’s office on 10 January 2023. (Photo by ETHIOPIA PRIME MINISTER OFFICE / AFP)

cooperation

Premium badgeChina in Ethiopia: A new flow of investments? In an effort to embrace the post-Covid era, China is progressively opening up to the rest of the globe. Economic recovery is crucial, and while the US...

Ethiopia top stories

© Farmers harvest wheat to increase local production of wheat and compensate for the shortage of wheat in Egypt. April 28, 2023. (Photo by Mahmoud Elkhwas / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)

harsh consequences

Premium badgeEgypt: Farmers bear brunt of climate change and dam project The Egyptian government has included small-scale farmers in its fight to counter the food crisis as it tries to feed over 100 million people amid a wo...
© File photo of Getachew Reda (L), leader of the new interim administration in Tigray, and former advisor and spokesman of the Tigray Region. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

Tigray turbulence

Premium badgeEthiopia peace deal offers Tigrayans hope but dilemmas persist Tigray’s political parties are determined to restore peace, rebuild the war-torn society, and strengthen democracy, but they don’t all share the same ...
© Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (l) walks alongside Sudanese Army Chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (C) at Khartoum Airport during a welcome ceremony on January 26, 2023. (Photo by – / AFP)

BALANCING ACT

Premium badgeWhy Ethiopia’s Abiy opts for neutrality in Sudan’s war of the generals Just five days after Sudan’s rival generals started their war on 15 April, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed dismissed what he called “false allega...

Ethiopia top stories

© Farmers harvest wheat to increase local production of wheat and compensate for the shortage of wheat in Egypt. April 28, 2023. (Photo by Mahmoud Elkhwas / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)

harsh consequences

Premium badgeEgypt: Farmers bear brunt of climate change and dam project The Egyptian government has included small-scale farmers in its fight to counter the food crisis as it tries to feed over 100 million people amid a wo...
© File photo of Getachew Reda (L), leader of the new interim administration in Tigray, and former advisor and spokesman of the Tigray Region. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

Tigray turbulence

Premium badgeEthiopia peace deal offers Tigrayans hope but dilemmas persist Tigray’s political parties are determined to restore peace, rebuild the war-torn society, and strengthen democracy, but they don’t all share the same ...
© Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (l) walks alongside Sudanese Army Chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (C) at Khartoum Airport during a welcome ceremony on January 26, 2023. (Photo by – / AFP)

BALANCING ACT

Premium badgeWhy Ethiopia’s Abiy opts for neutrality in Sudan’s war of the generals Just five days after Sudan’s rival generals started their war on 15 April, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed dismissed what he called “false allega...

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All 157 people on board flight ET 302 died in the crash on 12 March 2019 © Jemal Countess / GETTY IMAGES EUROPE / Getty Images/AFP.

new controversy

Premium badgeHas the ‘human factor’ in the Ethiopian Airlines 2019 crash been forgotten? The Ethiopian authorities’ long-awaited report on the flight ET 302 crash has provoked strong reactions in France and the US.
IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva

Changing priorities

Premium badgeIMF chief looks to strengthen ‘financial safety net’ for Africa Protecting debt-laden African countries from painful cuts to social services is top of mind for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund heading...
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profile

Premium badgeAt Spotify Africa, Jocelyne Muhutu-Remy runs the show To bring music streaming into the hearts and minds of Africans throughout the continent, Jocelyn Muhutu-Remy, the talented Franco-Rwandan media figure...
© A woman counts Ethiopian birr notes in Addis Ababa November 14, 2015. Picture taken November 14, 2015. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

bailout needed

Premium badgeEthiopia: Birr devaluation set to be a mixed blessing for economy As Ethiopia battles the economic consequences of the coronavirus and the war in the Tigray region, speculation abounds that the country will require a...
© A police marching band plays at a street carnival organized by the Tigray Development Association in support of the recent peace deal agreed between the Ethiopian federal government and Tigray forces, in Mekele, the capital of the Tigray region, in northern Ethiopia on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (AP Photo)

on track

Premium badgeEthiopia: Obstacles on road to peace persist, but both parties still on course Ethiopia’s Tigray peace process is continuing to take shape after the federal government restored phone lines and mobile internet to much of the north...
© Children from a Maasai community look at the remains of an elephant that died in the drought on community land near the outskirts of Amboseli National Park on December 18, 2022 in Amboseli, Kenya. (Photo by Ed Ram/Getty Images) (Photo by Ed Ram / GETTY IMAGES EUROPE / Getty Images via AFP)

let it rain

Premium badgeKenya, Somalia…latest Horn of Africa climate outlook looks dry The latest climate forecast showing that the greater horn of Africa will experience its fifth consecutive failed rainy season could not have come at a...